Insects
Information for Drosophila is on the Model Organisms page.
Featured Articles:
The Promise of Insect Genomics
Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Hauser F.
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 63(5):413 - 416, 2007.
ButterflyBase: a platform for lepidopteran genomics
Papanicolaou, A, Gebauer-Jung, S, Blaxter,
ML, W.
Owen McMillan (NCSU) , and Jiggins, CD.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, published online October 12, 2007
AphidBase
http://w3.rennes.inra.fr/AphidBase/
Stores genomic resources on aphids and makes possible comparison to
other insect resources as functional annotation tools, in particular,
the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Links to FlyBase and A.gambiae Entrez
databases allow a rapid characterization of the putative functions
of the aphid sequences
BeetleBase http://www.bioinformatics.ksu.edu/BeetleBase/ Integrates
genomic sequence data for the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) with information
about genes, mutants, markers, ESTs, and publications.
ButterflyBase
http://www.butterflybase.org
A resource for lepidopteran genomics that includes over 273,000 ESTs
from more than 30 different species. ESTs have been clustered into
stable unigene sets with robust protein translations derived from each unigene
cluster. Clusters and their protein translations are annotated with
BLAST-based similarity, gene ontology (GO), enzyme classification
(EC) and Kyoto encyclopaedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) terms, and
are also searchable using similarity tools such as BLAST and MS-BLAST.
Honey Bee Genome Resources
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/bee/
A page providing a gateway to honey bee genome resources, including sequence
data and publications.
Honeybee Gene Index
http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/cgi-bin/tgi/gimain.pl?gudb=honeybee
The DFCI A.mellifera Gene Index integrates research data from international A.mellifera EST
sequencing and gene research projects.
LocustDB
http://locustdb.genomics.org.cn/
Contains over 45,000 high-quality EST sequences from the locust, assembled
into 12,161 unigenes. The database provides access to sequence data, including
homologous/orthologous sequences, functional annotations, and pathway analysis,
based on conserved orthologous groups (COG), gene ontology (GO), protein
domain (InterPro), and functional pathways (KEGG). It also provides information
on comparative analysis with data from the migratory locust and five
other invertebrate species, including the silkworm, the honeybee, the fruitfly,
the mosquito and the nematode.
SilkDB: The Silkworm Knowledgebase
http://silkworm.genomics.org.cn
A repository for the curation, integration and study of silkworm genetic and
genomic data. Includes an approximately 6X draft genome sequence of the domestic
silkworm (Bombyx mori), and integrates the representation of the large-scale,
genome-wide sequence assembly with ESTs, transposable elements (TEs), mutants,
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and functional annotations of genes.
SilkDB also hosts a set of ESTs from Bombyx mandarina, a wild progenitor
of B.mori, and a collection of genes from other Lepidoptera. Comparative analysis
is also possible between B. mori and the two sequenced insects, fruitfly
and mosquito.
VectorBase
http://www.vectorbase.org/
A web-based data repository
for information about invertebrate vectors of human pathogens. Currently,
VectorBase contains genome information for: Anopheles gambiae (malaria), Aedes
aegypti (Yellow fever and Dengue
fever), and Culex pipiens (lymphatic filariasis and West Nile fever).
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